TITLE:
Lung Cancer with Rare Occurrence of Distal Appendicular Skeletal Metastases
AUTHORS:
Kishor Taori, Ajinky Patil, Lalit Garg, Ramesh Parate, Priya Tembhare, Rohini Rathod, Jawhar Rathod, Amit Disawal, Anand Hatgaonkar
KEYWORDS:
Lung Cancer, Distal Appendicular Skeletal Metastases
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.1 No.4,
July
15,
2014
ABSTRACT: Distal appendicular skeletal involvement is a rare finding. Skeletal metastases by far is ranked 3rd in place after liver & brain. Among the skeleton, axial skeleton has a predilection. We report a 65-year-old male with lung cancer with distal ulnar metastases. Patient has swelling of left wrist from last 6 months. Physical examination revealed ill-defined, painful, swelling of left wrist joint. Radiograph revealed permeative destruction of distal ulna. On examination infectious/neoplastic etiology was considered but on evaluation the primary was found to be lung malignancy with distal ulnar metastases.